Frank Zimper 🕯️🐘<p>Have you seen Episode one of the seventh series of Black Mirror? </p><p>* spoiler ahead *</p><p>A dystopian piece about an implant that's essential to survival but becomes obsolete over time. The company provides a - costly - upgrade which is not affordable to the couple who need it.</p><p>Luckily it's just fiction. Right? IT IS FICTION, ISN'T IT???</p><p>Well... </p><p><a href="https://www.sapiens.org/culture/planned-obsolescence-cochlear-implants/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sapiens.org/culture/planned-ob</span><span class="invisible">solescence-cochlear-implants/</span></a></p><p>Wikipedia page about the <a href="https://bildung.social/tags/BlackMirror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlackMirror</span></a> episode:</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_People_(Black_Mirror)" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_P</span><span class="invisible">eople_(Black_Mirror)</span></a></p><p><a href="https://bildung.social/tags/CochleaImplant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CochleaImplant</span></a> <a href="https://bildung.social/tags/plannedObsolence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>plannedObsolence</span></a></p>